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The fighting lasted until six in the morning. Both the Japanese army and the Gui army stationed in Mengcheng suffered heavy losses. The two sides took advantage of the temporary truce to seize the time to replenish ammunition, and at the same time let the soldiers on the front line eat some dry food and replenish their physical strength. .
Less than two hours later, the Japanese army once again launched airborne balloons to indicate the artillery attack target, and then prepared to attack.
"Boom boom boom"
After a burst of shelling, planes bombed again, and the entire city was ablaze.
Around ten o'clock, the Japanese army began to attack again. With yesterday's experience, they were much more cautious. Apparently they also found that the defenders of Mengcheng were extraordinary!
Since the encirclement of the defenders has not yet been successful, they can only attack from two directions: the east and south of the city. Therefore, the little devils can only set up the infantry artillery to the forward position, and also place the heavy machine guns, in a posture of fighting a lion against a rabbit.
Judging from the cautious appearance of the little devil, he was not as arrogant as the day before!
But now it is the Japs who are attacking, so no matter how cunning they are, they cannot escape the order to attack. As the attacking party, they will be at a natural disadvantage in the siege. As long as the city is not broken, the attacking party will definitely suffer more casualties than The defending side is much larger.
In addition, the defenders were ready to defend, so the two attacks of the Japs were repelled by the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 1033 Regiment!
After losing more than 400 people in succession, the infantry brigade on the front line of the Little Devils was beaten to pieces. In desperation, it had no choice but to request reinforcements from the division headquarters.
The commander of the Japanese Ninth Division was also supervising operations at the front line in the morning. In his opinion, the front line commanders performed fairly well in commanding operations. Even if he was replaced, the situation might not be much better.
After thinking about it again and again, Higuchi Kiichiro decided to continue adding troops to the front-line battlefield. This small Chinese county must be captured.
After the Japanese army received tank reinforcements at about 1 p.m., they repeated their old plan of launching balloons and artillery bombardments, and tanks assisted the battle. Four planes in the sky bombarded the Mengcheng garrison positions back and forth.
After the bombing, fires broke out everywhere in the city, and there was a cloud of smoke outside the city. This time the Japanese army was like a fully inflated tire, and they wanted to eat the 1033rd regiment in one go.
The attacking Japanese army rushed forward with more than a dozen tanks, leading the infantry with almost no resistance. Suddenly, the tanks in front seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit and suddenly became unable to move. The tracks were rotating but the vehicle could not move.
The Japanese army panicked, and the tank sank into the turtle hole. This gave the officers and soldiers of the first battalion an opportunity, so the light and heavy machine guns blocked the infantry, and the regiment infantry artillery attacked the Japanese tanks one by one from back to front.
After a while, several Japanese tanks were hit and set on fire. Unfortunately, infantry artillery was not suitable for attacking tanks. Almost all of the tanks that were hit were hit by tanks with open lids. If there were a few battle defenses, A dozen or so tanks can take care of them all.
The entire Guangxi Army is very clear about the Japanese tactics, and the 173rd Division has always been known for being good at defense among the Gui Army. Even in the Battle of Songhu a few months ago, the 1033rd Regiment of the 173rd Division blocked the Japanese army for more than 20 days.
To put it bluntly, they are experienced in offensive and defensive combat with the Japs!
The defensive position of the third battalion withstood the most artillery attacks since the war began. The dense trees near the village were blown to pieces, and many trees were blown to pieces.
During the indiscriminate bombing of the Third Battalion by the Japanese, many soldiers were buried in the trenches. The commander of the Third Battalion, Lan Quan, had no choice but to urgently call the regiment headquarters for reinforcements.
Although Ling Shangyun didn¡¯t have many troops on hand, he quickly mobilized a company from the Third Battalion left in Dongcheng for reinforcements and sent a regimental medical team out of the city to transport the wounded.
Even though they were attacked by Japanese troops one after another, the soldiers of the Third Battalion still drove the Japanese troops out of their positions and persisted until dusk.
At this time, Captain Lingyun saw that the situation outside the East City was not favorable for fighting again, so he ordered all the positions outside the East City of the Third Battalion to abandon their positions and withdraw into the city. However, when they withdrew their positions, there were still two infantry companies of the Third Battalion that could not withdraw and were isolated by the Japanese army. Outside the city, they had to fight alone to support the battle in the city.
Although the Japanese army occupied most of the positions outside the city, it was difficult to eliminate these two companies for a while, and even those who were familiar with the terrain were panicked. Many Japanese officers said that these two companies were the most powerful. Like a ghost, haunting the siege Japanese troops.
Because there were many villages outside the east of the city, the Japanese army had to spend a large number of infantry to attack them. However, when encountering unfamiliar terrain, the Japanese army gained nothing at all and instead suffered a lot of losses.
By noon on the 9th, when they were about to run out of ammunition and food, the two company commanders decided to lead their troops to break out of the encirclement and withdraw from the battle. Fortunately, they met the officers and soldiers of the 176th Division on the way.
Afterwards, the two company commanders discussed and decided to rush into the eastern suburbs of Mengcheng again with reinforcements. They wanted to regain their position, or at the worst, they would rush into the city to join the large army!
"But we couldn't rush in no matter what. It turned out that the soldiers who had been encircling and suppressing these two companies were still where they were and had not left.
The residential houses outside the south of the city defended by the first battalion were all destroyed, and many positions were destroyed. In the evening, only about fifty soldiers from a company withdrew from the city.
Although the losses were considerable, since the first and second battalions were operating in coordination, the Japanese siege troops did not gain any benefit at all.
On the 8th, Commander Zhou contacted the division headquarters via telegram in the afternoon, reporting the battle situation over the past two days and asking when the large force would arrive in Mengcheng.
Commander He Weizhen of the 173rd Division immediately called back: "Two regiments of the 176th Division are approaching Mengcheng. Instruct the 1033rd Regiment to hold on until reinforcements appear and not to break out before reinforcements arrive."
However, what Zhou Yuan and others did not know was that just when they were in contact with the division headquarters, the Japanese army had added two thousand more troops and had already surrounded Mengcheng like an iron barrel.
In order to capture Mengcheng as soon as possible, the Japanese army mustered up their energy and launched a night attack that night.
Fortunately, the 1033 regiment, which is good at night fighting, has already been prepared. The second battalion has two companies dedicated to using rope hooks and pole hooks to serve the Japanese troops who dare to climb the city wall.
Not only did the Japanese army fail to attack the city after a busy night, but the defenders used rope hooks to pull up several machine guns. The Japanese army tried to use ladders to climb the city wall, but countless Japanese soldiers fell down.
The battle lasted for two days and one night from May 8, but the Ninth Division found that they had concentrated seven to eight thousand troops. After consecutive days of bombing with planes, tanks, and artillery cover, they added another two thousand troops, but they could not defeat a single enemy. Little Mengcheng.
¡°Both Kiichiro Higuchi and Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, commander of the Third Division who was supervising the battle, were shocked. In addition to shock, they were even more angry.
In the words of Susumu Fujita, the number of Chinese troops that can be packed into a small county/county is probably no more than two or three thousand. Even if the opponent is invulnerable, it should be eliminated. Why has it been delayed until now? It is a disgrace to the imperial army.
The Japanese army, eager to attack the city, started a new day of attack in the early morning of the 10th.
It¡¯s still the same as before, first releasing balloons, followed by artillery bombardment, tanks attacking, and aircraft assisting. If the Japanese army lacks such offensive means, it would be a dream to take over Mengcheng at once with just these five or six thousand infantrymen.
In fact, based on previous combat experience, when the Chinese army and the Japanese army fought, the most casualties were not gunfire, but those killed by the opponent's artillery shells and aerial bombs.
For example, in the Battle of Songhu, after the war, most of the soldiers who died for the country were killed by bombs and artillery shells, not bullets and grenades.
The Japanese artillery shelled first outside the east gate of the city, and then moved to the south city. Seeing that there was no artillery fire back outside the east gate or inside the city, the Japanese army concentrated artillery fire and aerial bombardment towards the city wall.
Mengcheng is said to be a county town, but its area is only about the size of Taierzhuang. Except for a few city gates that are made of brick and wood, the rest of the city walls are made of rammed earth, which can withstand the bombardment of the little devils.
At 10 a.m. on the 10th, many city walls could not withstand the shelling, and the Japanese army finally blasted the walls open.
There were gaps in many places in the city wall, and the little devils rushed towards the gaps on the collapsed soil of the city wall!
"What the little devils didn't know was that the defenders had long known that the city wall was not strong and had already made preparations. These Japanese soldiers never thought that these floating soils would also be good graves for burials.
The city walls of Mengcheng were made of rammed soil from the corner of the city. The gaps opened by the concentrated artillery bombardment created a thick layer of floating soil. The Japanese troops who rushed to the top immediately complained incessantly. Let alone charging, almost all of them were nailed to the ground. It's over there, as long as it's not buried alive.
At this time, the Gui army ambushing nearby could clean them up even with sticks, and the Gui army went on a killing spree.
The Japanese soldiers in the distance used binoculars to observe, and thought that the Japanese soldiers in front had already rushed in, so they immediately urged those behind to follow. The Japanese soldiers behind them simply rushed into the city on top of their own comrades.
The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 1033rd Regiment showed no mercy. They concentrated their machine guns and grenades and opened fire one after another. The Japanese soldiers who only fought were able to parry but not to fight back.
However, no matter what, the Japanese army had entered the city, which put great pressure on the defenders in the city. In desperation, Commander Zhou Yuan had no choice but to report the situation to the 21st Group Army Headquarters and the Fifth Theater Commander's Department and request reinforcements. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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